This Ain't Fun. But You Watch Me,

Life Is Not A Spectator Sport.

Baseball, Like Some Other Sports, Poses As A Sacred Institution Dedicated To The Public Good, But It Is Actually A Big, Selfish Business With A Ruthlessness That Many Big Businesses Would Never Think Of Displaying.

I Know That I Am A Black Man In A White World. . . I Know That I Never Had It Made.

If I Had To Choose Between Baseball’s Hall Of Fame And First Class Citizenship For All Of My People. I Would Say First-class Citizenship.

I Had To Fight Hard Against Loneliness, Abuse, And The Knowledge That Any Mistakes I Made Would Be Magnified Because I Was The Only Black Man Out There... I Never Cared About Acceptance As Much As I Cared About Respect.